AuthorTopic: cpu@100% (Read 3549 times)

I had previously mentioned in an other topic about my overheating problem. Now I somehow managed to install vector soho and had no problems till now. But now whenever I play a media file the cpu usage shoots to 100% (this is from the process viewer Htop).I installed smplayer also(I know it uses mplayer only), but here also the cpu usage goes to 100%, while the same file using the same smplayer on windows plays with less than 5% cpu.Now I am really worried about the overheating, although any emergency shutdown hasnt occured till now, I dont want to risk my (so far working)cpu.Is this normal? or did I screw up somewhere during the install...

( I also tried using cpulimit-1.1, and restricted the process to a low value~30, but the play was jittery )

1) what version of VL are you using?2) what type of media file?3) show us the output of "top" if possible4) did you try a different media player such as xine or vlc, and if so do you get the same CPU usage?5) did you try a different media file of the same type and codec?6) can you make that media file available to others to test?7) did you do any mahjor upgrades to VectorLinux?

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After a few reboots, the cpu usage is not exactly 100% but its pretty high, I tested different files using different players, the usage continuously varies over a large range, and while seeking it is almost at 100%

On xp, all the files except the mkv ran with less than 18% usage with vlc and less than 10% on smplayer, even while seeking.

Here are the process viewer screenshots, I took took shots when the values were stable for a long time..(3.02MB) http://www.sendspace.com/file/qdyldpI didn't understand much in the process viewer, but I think the high cpu usage was due to the total of all the processes , not due to the player alone.

Will switching to vector standard help???, I'm not into pretty graphics and find kde bloated....

I shifted to vector standard and boy, you guys weren't kidding about the speed and performance thing

All the files played with 10~30% cpu usage on xine. But I couldn't start mplayer, when i clicked on the icon, a small clock appeared next to the cursor and nothing happend. Same thing happened with smplayer also.....I want to play on mplayer coz it takes minimal resources, sigh, problems again